Fallen Aussie soldier to be honoured

Fallen soldier Corporal Cameron Baird will be honoured with a ramp ceremony on home soil.

Corporal Baird, the 40th Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan, will be farewelled at the RAAF Base Richmond on Saturday.

The member of the 2nd Commando Regiment was killed in an engagement with insurgents in the Khod Valley in southern Afghanistan earlier this month.

Corporal Baird was serving with the Australian Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) when he was killed.

Fellow members of the SOTG farewelled him in a service of remembrance and ramp ceremony at the Tarin Kowt base before he started his final journey home.

SOTG commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel J (who cannot be named for operational reasons) previously described Corporal Baird as a professional and disciplined soldier who exemplified all that was a Commando.

"Cam, you were a soldier of the highest order, one never to shy from battle," Lieutenant Colonel J said.